Geography 2060A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Swahili Coast, Sub-Saharan Africa, Primate City
19 Mar 2019
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African and asian urbanisms; transformed to 50 years of independence. Arab and persian peoples of asia flourished for more than a thousand years. In 9th century significance of swahili coast ratcheted upwards with increased trade with. In most of ssa, under european colonialism, little real industrialization occurred: colonial regimes prioritized export of minerals, metals or primary goods to europe, to support scale of trade between africa, europe and control colonies, larger. Post-colonial urbanization: from 1960s-1980s ssa contained the world"s most rapidly urbanizing countries, eastern and southern africa led the world in urbanization rates for half a century, some countries had rates of urban population growth above 10% from 1960-91. Distinctive cities true or false questions on final. Kinshasa (the invisible city: population was conservatively estimated to be 10. 5 million in 2009 (megacity, instability and warfare have hindered economic development. Industry has been declining for 30 years or more; rioting, looting and urban violence in.
